1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990003780160403321

Autore

EUROMEDIA RESEARCH GROUP

Titolo

The Media in Western Europe / Euromedia Research Group ; the Euromedia Handbook ; [edited by] Bernt Stubbe Ostergaard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : SAGE, 1992 (rist. 1994)

ISBN

0-8039-8576-2

Edizione

[1.ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xi, 265 p. ; 21 cm

Collana

SAGE communications in Society

Disciplina

302.23094

302.23

Locazione

BFS

Collocazione

302.23094 OST 1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910157800503321

Autore

Zuckerman Gordon

Titolo

Voices behind the curtain / / by Gordon Zuckerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Ashland, Alabama] : , : Gordon Zuckerman, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-9980070-2-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages)

Collana

The Sentinels

Disciplina

338.47670973

Soggetti

Manufacturing industries - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790284503321

Autore

Clarke Alan W (Alan William)

Titolo

Rendition to torture [[electronic resource] /] / Alan W. Clarke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-49242-2

9786613587657

0-8135-5312-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (248 p.)

Collana

Genocide, political violence, human rights series

Disciplina

342.7308/2

Soggetti

Extraordinary rendition - United States

Torture - Government policy - United States

Detention of persons - Government policy - United States

Deportation - Government policy - United States

False imprisonment - United States

National security - United States

Extraordinary rendition

Torture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Cultivating a Torture Culture -- 3. From Eichmann and Carlos “the Jackal” to Reagan and Clinton -- 4. Significant U.S. Renditions to Torture -- 5. State Secrets Privilege Trumps Justice: Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan -- 6 .The Illegality of the Iraq War and How Rendition Sparked It -- 7. European and Canadian Complicity in Rendition and Torture -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Universally condemned and everywhere illegal, torture goes on in democracies as well as in dictatorships. Nonetheless, many Americans were surprised following the attacks of 9/11 at how easily the United States embraced torture as well as the supposedly lesser evil of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. Nothing seemed extreme when it came to questioning real and imagined terrorists. Extraordinary rendition—sending people captured in the “war on terror” to nations long counted among the world’s worst human rights violators—hid from the public eye cruel and bloody interrogations. “Torture lite” or “torture without marks” became the norm for those in American custody. In Rendition to Torture, Alan W. Clarke explains how the United States adopted torture as a matter of official policy; how and why it turned to extraordinary rendition as a way to outsource more extreme, mutilating forms of torture; and outlines the steps the United States took to hide its abuses. Many adverse consequences attended American use of torture. False information gleaned from torture was used to justify the Iraq war, adding potency to the charge that the war was illegal under international law. Moreover, European nations and Canada aided, abetted, and became thoroughly enmeshed in U.S.-led torture and renditions, thereby spreading both the problem and the blame for this practice. Clarke offers an extended critique of these activities, placing them in historical and legal context as well as in transnational and comparative perspective.